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Scientific analysis for the gravitational-wave detector LISA will require theoretical waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that extensively cover all possible orbital and spin configurations around astrophysical Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Soichiro Isoyama , Ryuichi Fujita , Alvin J. K. Chua , Hiroyuki Nakano , Adam Pound , Norichika Sago

Gravitational wave observations of the inspiral of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes (MBHs), extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), enable precision measurements of parameters such as the MBH mass and spin. The Laser…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird , Christopher P. L. Berry , Graham Woan

The detection of a stochastic background of gravitational waves could significantly impact our understanding of the physical processes that shaped the early Universe. The challenge lies in separating the cosmological signal from other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

Gravitational wave detectors in space, particularly the LISA project, can study a rich variety of astronomical systems whose gravitational radiation is not detectable from the ground, because it is emitted in the low-frequency gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. F. Schutz

Detecting individual extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) is a major science goal of future space-based gravitational wave observatories such as Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and TianQin. However, matched-filtering can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Lingyuan Ji , Liang Dai

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a small compact object inspiralls onto a supermassive black hole, are excellent sources for the space-based laser interferometer gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The presence of dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-10 Chao Zhang , Guoyang Fu , Ning Dai

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational wave signals from ~100 extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes. The long duration and large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan R Gair , Ilya Mandel , Linqing Wen

The upcoming gravitational wave (GW) observatory LISA will measure the parameters of sources like extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) to exquisite precision. These measurements will also be sensitive to perturbations to the vacuum,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-18 Shubham Kejriwal , Francisco Duque , Alvin J. K. Chua , Jonathan Gair

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals, a target source for the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA, are a sensitive probe of fundamental scalar fields coupled to gravity. We assess the capability of LISA to detect whether the secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-19 Matteo Della Rocca , Susanna Barsanti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show a large value and complex variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs). The binary systems containing a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and a neutron star (NS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Rui-Nan Li , Zhen-Yin Zhao , Zhifu Gao , F. Y. Wang

In gravitational-wave astronomy, extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral (EMRI) sources for the upcoming LISA observatory have the potential to serve as high-precision probes of astrophysical environments in galactic nuclei, and of potential deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Shubham Kejriwal , Lorenzo Speri , Alvin J. K. Chua

Detecting stochastic background radiation of cosmological origin is an exciting possibility for current and future gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. However, distinguishing it from other stochastic processes, such as instrumental noise and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-28 Quentin Baghi , Nikolaos Karnesis , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Marc Besançon , Henri Inchauspé

LISA is a planned space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector that would be sensitive to waves from low-frequency sources, in the band of roughly (0.03 - 0.1) mHz < f < 0.1 Hz. This is expected to be an extremely rich chunk of the GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-02 Scott A. Hughes

One of the important targets for the future space-based gravitational wave observatory LISA is extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where long and accurate waveform modeling is necessary for detection and characterization. Modeling EMRI…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 David Bronicki , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Leo C. Stein

Extreme mass ratio in-spirals (EMRIs) are candidate events for gravitational wave detection in the millihertz range (by detectors like LISA and eLISA). These events involve a stellar-mass black hole, or a similar compact object, descending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Deyan P. Mihaylov , Jonathan Gair

[abridged] The detection of gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio (EMRI) binaries, comprising a stellar-mass compact object orbiting around a massive black hole, is one of the main targets for low-frequency gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-09 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) (capture and inspiral of a compact stellar mass object into a Massive Black Hole (MBH)) are among the most interesting objects for the gravitational wave astronomy. It is a very challenging task to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-11 Yan Wang , Yu Shang , Stanislav Babak

We study gravitational waves from a stellar-mass binary orbiting a spinning supermassive black hole, a system referred to as a binary extreme mass ratio inspiral (b-EMRI). We use Dixon's formalism to describe the stellar-mass binary as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 João S. Santos , Vitor Cardoso , José Natário , Maarten van de Meent

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most powerful probes of strong-field gravity and of the environments surrounding supermassive compact objects. Motivated by the expected presence of dark matter near galactic centers, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Mubasher Jamil , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

One of the primary research aims of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is to comprehensively map the Kerr spacetime, a fundamental pursuit in the realm of general relativity. To achieve this goal, it is essential to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Shailesh Kumar
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